I've pet tiger cubs before, never adults, but I remember their fur was courser.

Joeydog, I'm glad the instructions I sent you worked! That's one heck of a pretty kitty!

Ooh, as a true tiger lover, I say "bring on the kittehs!!!!" 

It's cool that you got to meet him in person! I've loved tigers ever since my second birthday, when I got "kitty" a stuffed tiger, from my oldest half brother and sister. They lived with their mom, and I with mine, so it was our first meeting.  Anyway though, I've always wished I could get the chance to pet an adult tiger. *envious*  maybe one day.

You must have so  much fun at that zoo.  I wanted to work in a zoo when I graduated, but it is really hard to get a vet position at a zoo because EVERYONE wants to.  Anyway, here you go, one white kitty!!

I love white tigers but they have so many health problems from being inbred to such an extent.... pretty much all white tigers in the US trace back to the same four or five. Even quite a few of the ones in the rest of the world have the same genetics. Sometimes they come out with serious birth defects, which sucks because then the zoos won't want them, nor private owners(who usually shouldn't have big cats anyway) so they end up put down. That is a fine specimin of the color, though, Joeydog.

Thank you all for your comments on my pics...especially the one of my real Joey Dog.  Actually, he is just Joey but whatever.  After I have done this, I will post my favorite freind from my visit to the DR.  Stay tuned.

Yesterday was a good day.  It was supposed to rain all day but it didn't until later afternoon.  As a result I got my grass cut (I live in the boonies so there is lots of grass) and I got my whipper snipper up and running and did that.  Then I went to the nursery and bought my plants for my planters and planted them.  I also got a bunch of house cleaning done.  Oh, and I found that I have a sparrow nesting (with 4 eggs) in a blue cedar in my front flower bed....so much for edging the bed as I do not want to scare her away.  I got my humming bird feeders up too and am getting a lot of business on those.  Love to see my birds at the feeders.

Today has sucked to be honest.  Rain all day and today was weigh in day for my diet....no gain, no loss.   Even though it has only been 4 of the 14 days I have to grease my hair with mecidation for my psoriasis, I could not stand having geasy hair all day so I washed it at lunch time and did not remedicate...yet.  I have to say, it looks really shiney and is soft, but I hate this medication.  Short term pain for long term gain I guess...I will medicate it again shortly.

Ihave really dry skin and have not looked after it since I got sick so it is terrible.  I tried an experiment tonight...I will leave it at that and let you know what it was if it works well.

Kiraela, I wanted to talk to you about nails...but I have written a novel already, so I will do that tomorrow instead.

Take care folks.

Well, half way through the battle of psoriasis on my scalp.  I washed my hair today with the terrible tar shampoo and found my scalp seems to be clear or psoriasis...but since there is nobody to actually look at it with a 'fine tooth comb' I will continue the treatment for the next week (argh) to be sure.  I aam positive I mentioned that (other than the gawd awful tar shampoo) I have to put this greasy....crap on twice a day and leave it.  In an attempt to prevent the meds going on the length, I put 1) jojoba oil 2) coconut oil OR 3) cocoa oil on the length.  Yup, I am a grease ball...which the meds would do anyway...but for the couple of hours a day after I wash my hair and wait for it to completely dry before I medicate and oil again  , it look and feels GREAT.  I think the cocoa oil is the best for me...and lets face it, it depends on how the molecule oil fits in with your hair...so it will be different for others...but it is fun to experiment before I go back to work and cannot have greasy hair!!!  Oh ya, I was introduced to AVC rinses by this site...and I use that each day right now after the oils to get them out so I do not have to shampoo so much.  I will be glad when this 2 week war on psoriasis is over.  On the bright side, I am seeing a big difference in my scalp and infected areas on my skin (I think the daily 15 minutes with cocount oil on my skin...grr, cannot sit down or where clothes while I do it before I shower and you should see me trying to stop my animals licking me) and hope to have it under control when I go back to work.  Thank God I am off the medication that made my psoriasis sooooo bad.

So, ya, find the right oil for you...based on what your hair absorbs...and have it shine and look great...

Oh ya, a friend is coming over tomorrow, so while my hair is only 21 inches and not all one length, I will ask him to photograph so I can share, because I have learned now...it is not the length that matter for a large part on this site...it is the health...and I believe my hair is healthy, although not long.

Nite all

Not much exciting to say about hair.  I just spend my life working on getting the garage done.  Tomorrow I have to go see my doc and hopefully he will say I am good for work in a couple of weeks.

I think I have gained weight instead of losing any.  Not getting out running, doing weights, etc, and because I am so tired by day end, I tend to eat poorly.  Oops.  I am joining a running group tomorrow, hopefully that will help.

I saw a story in the local rag today that I thought I would share with you all.  It is about a Rev from a church who had grown her hair for 17 years. In an effort to raise funding for cancer, whe was pledged $2000 to cut off her hair.    She was going to shave her head completely until the memebers of the congregation thought that would be a shame so instead she cut it at shoulder length to get the plegde money and then she donated the hair to Locks for Love.   Talk about long hair though...there is a pic of her holding the cut off hair at the same level as the top of her head and still goes to her waist AND she still has shoulder length hair.  Isn't that amazing!!!  When I researched donating hair, they said it was 6 X 6inch pony tails to make a wig.  She must have donated enough to make more than half a wig.    While I am sure she must feel bald, I say "Good on her" and she looks to be in her late 20's so she can grow it back.

hmm,wow , that sounds like a ton of hair that woman had. I don't know if I'll ever be able to donate my hair when it's finally long, since it's taking me so much blood, sweat and tears to get it long. Ok, maybe not blood, sweat and tears, but lots of determination and patience.